Author Biography – Meeting Bencheshttp://meetingbenches.com
Book by autorTue, 15 Aug 2017 12:57:37 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.1MY DARLING – ByeAlexhttp://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/my-darling-byealex/
http://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/my-darling-byealex/#commentsTue, 15 Aug 2017 12:48:22 +0000http://meetingbenches.com/?p=29556Kisvárda is a town located in northeastern Hungary (Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg province). Here was born Alex Márta, a Hungarian singer known by the pseudonym ByeAlex in 1984. Https://twitter.com/byealexmusic He studied in Kisvárda and Fényeslitke and graduated in philosophy at the University of Miskolc. He became famous when he won the national selection competition in Hungary for the ...

]]>Kisvárda is a town located in northeastern Hungary (Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg province). Here was born Alex Márta, a Hungarian singer known by the pseudonym ByeAlex in 1984. Https://twitter.com/byealexmusic He studied in Kisvárda and Fényeslitke and graduated in philosophy at the University of Miskolc. He became famous when he won the national selection competition in Hungary for the Eurovision Song Contest contest in 2013, representing Hungary with the song Kedvesem.

MY DARLING – My darling is the kind of girl who is raised by the wolves and danced with a mirage then evaporated silently. My darling, she is my darling. My darling is the kind of girl who is embraced by 7 continents, plashing in beautiful seas and dancing among the clouds. My darling, she is my darling, because I don’t have anyone else now, just the darling, my darling. Wherever she is that’s nice for me, that’s nice for me, she always founds me. My darling, my darling. I would croon that that’s nice for me, that’s nice for me this song. My darling is the kind of girl who is torn by whimsical dreams. Her disheveled hair is twisted by the winds every morning, that’s why my darling is different. She is my darling. My darling is bearding with the infinity and never dread creates a chariot out of rosemary and pulling by cicadas that’s how she calms me silently. She is my darling, beceause I don’t have anyone else now, just the darling, my darling wherever she is that’s nice for me, that’s nice for me she always founds me. My darling, my darling. I would croon that that’s nice for me, that’s nice for me this song. I don’t have anyone else now just the darling, my darling wherever she is that’s nice for me, that’s nice for me she always founds me. My darling, my darling, I would croon that that’s nice for me, that’s nice for me this song.

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]]>http://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/my-darling-byealex/feed/1FATELESSNESS – Romance, by Imre Kertészhttp://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/fatelessness-romance-imre-kertesz/
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:45:53 +0000http://meetingbenches.com/?p=29552The Hungarian writer Imre Kertész was born in Budapest in 1929. He survived the Nazi extermination camps in 1944. He thought the “freedom” was the worst danger, which surrounded man, because freedom is the ultimate conquest, which makes it coward. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature for writing in 2002. In Communist Hungary, he ...

]]>The Hungarian writer Imre Kertész was born in Budapest in 1929. He survived the Nazi extermination camps in 1944. He thought the “freedom” was the worst danger, which surrounded man, because freedom is the ultimate conquest, which makes it coward. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature for writing in 2002. In Communist Hungary, he and his work were banned. “Art does not serve to judge people, but to recreate the moment.” This sentence should be the assumption of each book.

His first and most famous novel Fatelessness was written between 1961 and 1973. At the age of 14, Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. The desire to grow, to see and learn, the vital impulse of this boy is so marked and blubberful, that his way of thinking always finds a good reason for things to happen. It is not a strictly autobiographical work, because the Hungarian Jewish stories during the war served as a starting point for rigorous philosophical reflection on breaks in history of the ‘900.

]]>I LOVE YOU – Poem, by Lörinc Szabóhttp://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/love-poem-lorinc-szabo/
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:43:06 +0000http://meetingbenches.com/?p=29548Lőrinc Szabó was a Hungarian poet and translator, born in Miskolc in 1900. He began his studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, but did not finish his studies. He preferred to work for a literary periodical. His first book of poetry – Earth, Forest, God – had been published in 1922, achieving remarkable success. ...

]]>Lőrinc Szabó was a Hungarian poet and translator, born in Miskolc in 1900. He began his studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, but did not finish his studies. He preferred to work for a literary periodical. His first book of poetry – Earth, Forest, God – had been published in 1922, achieving remarkable success.

Lőrinc Szabó had fought in World War II, emphasizing the beauty of war poetry. Because of his old Nazi-like sympathies, after World War I had been marginalized by the Hungarian cultural life. Many of his poems have been dedicated to his children, while in other poems he recalled his childhood. Deeply pessimistic, he has been the author of two poetic masterpieces: the autobiographical cycle “Grill Music”, and “The Twenty-sixth Year”.

I LOVE YOU – I love you, I love you, I reach for you. All day I look for you, seek for you. All day when you’re gone I’m in tears for you. I languish and fret for the love of you. I kiss you, the sweet and the sour of you. I kiss every minute and hour of you. I kiss every minute and hour of you. My lips are still faint with the taste of you. I kiss the ground rich with the weight of you. I kiss the minutes you wait and I wait for you. I search far away as I seek for you. I love you, I love you, I reach for you.

]]>ISTVAN SZONYI (1894/1960), UNGARIAN PAINTERhttp://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/istvan-szonyi-18941960-ungarian-painter/
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:40:25 +0000http://meetingbenches.com/?p=29543ISTVAN SZONYI 1/3 – He was an outstanding figure of 20th-century Hungarian painting. He was born to German-born Catholic parents in Újpest in 1894 and studied painting with Hungarian painters Ferenczy and Réti. During his early trips to Europe (Vienna and Berlin), he met great classmasters. His post-Impressionist paintings have enhanced and embellished the magical ...

]]>ISTVAN SZONYI1/3 – He was an outstanding figure of 20th-century Hungarian painting. He was born to German-born Catholic parents in Újpest in 1894 and studied painting with Hungarian painters Ferenczy and Réti. During his early trips to Europe (Vienna and Berlin), he met great classmasters. His post-Impressionist paintings have enhanced and embellished the magical landscape. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0III74ZEy4 His first paintings produced great influence on young contemporary Hungarian painters.

ISTVAN SZONYI2/3 – He organized the first collective exhibition in the Ernst Museum in Budapest in 1920. A decisive stage in his life and art was his marriage with Melinda Bartóky, as well as his transfer to Zebegény (a village near the Danube), where landscapes, way of life and nature proved deep down on him. The Hungarian state offered to his daughter to buy the house in Zebegény (including pictures and garden), where the painter lived, to create a museum. Now visitors of the museum will see most of the images of Szőnyi’s work there. http://www.szonyimuzeum.hu/szonyi-istvan-memorial-museum

ISTVAN SZONYI3/3 – His chromatic board was gradually changing and brighter and brighter colors appeared in his artworks. He had found a new technique suited to his new way of painting – egg tempera. In the 1930s he used tempera painting, producing delicate colors. In 1937 he became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he taught for more than two decades. Throughout his career, he was able to avoid the traps of neoclassicism.

]]>OH YOUTH – Arsen Dedićhttp://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/oh-youth-arsen-dedic/
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 06:57:18 +0000http://meetingbenches.com/?p=29523Arsen Dedić is a singer-songwriter, one of the most prominent from Dalmatia. He was also an award-winning poet and was one of the best-selling poets of former Yugoslavia. He wrote and performed chansons, composes ballet music as well as film music and soundtracks. He recorded dozens of albums and hundreds of songs, he attended various ...

]]>Arsen Dedić is a singer-songwriter, one of the most prominent from Dalmatia. He was also an award-winning poet and was one of the best-selling poets of former Yugoslavia. He wrote and performed chansons, composes ballet music as well as film music and soundtracks. He recorded dozens of albums and hundreds of songs, he attended various festivals, also abroad. His father was an orthodox Christian, a bricklayer and a musician. Arsen was born in Šibenik in 1938, graduated at the Zagreb Academy of Music and debuted as a songwriter in 1963.

OH YOUTH – You gave but you stole and unfaithful were you. No, you didn’t give me too much. Oh youth, oh youth. Oh youth of mine that scarcely sun, that came down that cheap love, short dreams for memories that is not enough. Oh youth, youth. Stand still for a moment, and give me strength at least to say goodbye to her, and that my friends finish the song, and for the glass to empty. Still full of hope, what shall I do we are just half the way across, and already this morning there is a new youth. Oh youth, oh youth, oh youth of mine. So goodbye, be better with someone else give him more tenderness, because that what I’m loosing is nothing. Oh youth, youth.

]]>IN THE JAWS OF LIFE – Romance, by Dubravka Ugresichttp://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/jaws-life-romance-dubravka-ugresic/
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 06:54:51 +0000http://meetingbenches.com/?p=29519The author plays with the characters of her tales, distributing roles over a narrative stage, which is full of brilliant parody. The novel “In the Jaws of Life” it’s a patchwork novel. There are symbols and the novel begins with a “Paper Pattern” rather than a Table of Contents, showing how the text will unfold. ...

]]>The author plays with the characters of her tales, distributing roles over a narrative stage, which is full of brilliant parody. The novel “In the Jaws of Life” it’s a patchwork novel. There are symbols and the novel begins with a “Paper Pattern” rather than a Table of Contents, showing how the text will unfold. What saves this postmodern novel is a writer no bound by preconceptions. The title novel, Steffie Speck in the Jaws of Life, charts the life of a typist for a lonely hearts column. The novel was made into a successful 1984 Yugoslav film. Dubravka Ugrešić is a post-Yugoslav writer, born in Kutina, a town in Croatia in the Sisak and Moslavina region, in 1949. She graduated in Comparative Literature and Russian Language at the University of Zagreb. At the onset of the war in 1991 in the former Yugoslavia, she was accused of being a witch of countrymanship, because of her anti-nationalist position, criticizing stupidity and war crime. This led her to leave Croatia, because she could not adapt to the lies of political and cultural life. Currently she lives in Amsterdam, she is freelance writer and collaborator of literary newspapers.

]]>ONE NIGHT – Dobriša Cesarićhttp://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/one-night-dobrisa-cesaric/
http://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/one-night-dobrisa-cesaric/#commentsFri, 11 Aug 2017 06:52:08 +0000http://meetingbenches.com/?p=29515 He wrote no more than about one hundred poems in just over half a century (most of which fit on a single page). Dobriša Cesarić was a Croatian poet and translator, born in Požega. He was the founder of modern Croatian poetry. He spent his childhood in Osijek. In the midst of World War ...

He wrote no more than about one hundred poems in just over half a century (most of which fit on a single page). Dobriša Cesarić was a Croatian poet and translator, born in Požega. He was the founder of modern Croatian poetry. He spent his childhood in Osijek. In the midst of World War I, he moved to Zagreb, where he finished high school and after graduating he enrolled to study law and philosophy in 1920.

With an aesthetics, which grew in time perfecting his own style, he was a poet writing about the beauty of life, love and human sympathy. His first collection of poems was awarded as the best poem collection of the year. He is considered as one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century, despite his limited output. After World War II he worked as an editor at the publishing company. He died in Zagreb in 1980.

ONE NIGHT – That night I wrote, sitting all calm, so next door my mother’s dream would suffer no alarm. And if I had to get a book, with every movement I would fear, with every single step I took, otn to wake my mother dear. The peaceful night thus crept on. And then I remembered she was gone.

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]]>http://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/one-night-dobrisa-cesaric/feed/1ZLATKO PRICA (1916/2003), CROATIAN PAINTERhttp://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/zlatko-prica-19162003-croatian-painter/
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 06:49:01 +0000http://meetingbenches.com/?p=29510ZLATKO PRICA 1/3 – He loved to draw figures and scenes, crystallizing in his precious chromatic contrasts. What he painted was functional to color, synthesizing his exquisite landscapes. In the 1960s, he approached abstractism, no longer captivated by the geometries of the realism of the origins and each painting is governed by the vital energy ...

]]>ZLATKO PRICA1/3 – He loved to draw figures and scenes, crystallizing in his precious chromatic contrasts. What he painted was functional to color, synthesizing his exquisite landscapes. In the 1960s, he approached abstractism, no longer captivated by the geometries of the realism of the origins and each painting is governed by the vital energy of colors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t8CuoDAYHY

ZLATKO PRICA2/3 – His pictorial creativity can be traced back to five important cycles: Samoborski, Seeds of countryside, Anatomy of nature, Tarski and Umbrellas of Opatija. He was born in Pecs in 1916, graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (for his exceptional talent, in the last school year he was awarded with scholarship) and realized his first personal show in 1941. Shortly thereafter – during World War II – this experience marked him deeply, having to face a long Nazi captivity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLV9sqDDKtA

ZLATKO PRICA3/3 – He had traveled to India, fascinated with the tradition of local painting. From this experience, his pictorial action approached primitivism. In the immediate aftermath of war he had also traveled to Paris and Brazil. Back home, he became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Until the mid-fifties, his pictorial horizon was figurative, with masterful use of color, which accompanied him all the time.

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]]>I WANT YOU TO FEEL ME – Nikos Vertishttp://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/want-feel-nikos-vertis/
http://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/want-feel-nikos-vertis/#commentsTue, 08 Aug 2017 12:03:05 +0000http://meetingbenches.com/?p=29487Born in the Netherlands in 1976, this Greek composer has already released five albums. He and his family moved to Thessaloniki (Greece), where at the age seven he began playing buzuki. NIKOS VERTIS had started singing in the small clubs of Thessaloniki and other places in Macedonia. Https://www.facebook.com/NikosVertisOfficial/ In 2003 he released his debut album ...

]]>Born in the Netherlands in 1976, this Greek composer has already released five albums. He and his family moved to Thessaloniki (Greece), where at the age seven he began playing buzuki. NIKOSVERTIS had started singing in the small clubs of Thessaloniki and other places in Macedonia. Https://www.facebook.com/NikosVertisOfficial/ In 2003 he released his debut album (Become a Quick Night). In the winter season 2003-2004, Vertis moved to Athens where he collaborated with Peggy Zina at the Apollon club.

In 2004 he released his second album (Andiamo, my soul), and two songs soon became radio hits. Https://twitter.com/nikosvertis In 2005, he released his third album (As I walk the evenings alone), winning the platinum disc. In 2007 he released his fourth album (Solo for you), with music tracks that became radio hits throughout the summer. In 2008, he began a world tour of 20 concerts, completed in 2009 in London. The fifth album (Everything Is Here) came out in 2009, getting a platinum disk fast again.

I WANT YOU TO FEEL ME – If you knew that I hate the nights cause they punish me for losing you. I admit it, I want to see you. I don’t want to go through such a night again. I want you to feel me, to not betray me. I want to hear you saying that you love me. I want you to feel me, to not kill me. Say that what we started didn’t end, if you knew that I’m counting the hours, like wounds on my body. So many hours have passed since I saw you for last time, and I think I’ll die if you don’t come. I want you to feel me, to not betray me. I want to hear you saying that you love me. I want you to feel me, to not kill me say that what we started didn’t end.

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]]>http://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/want-feel-nikos-vertis/feed/1NIKIPHOROS LYTRAS (1832/1904), GREEK IMPRESSIONIST PAINTERhttp://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/nikiphoros-lytras-18321904-greek-impressionist-painter/
http://meetingbenches.com/2017/08/nikiphoros-lytras-18321904-greek-impressionist-painter/#commentsTue, 08 Aug 2017 11:59:52 +0000http://meetingbenches.com/?p=29482THE ARTISTIC WHOLENESS NIKIPHOROS LYTRAS 1/4 –He was one of the most important exponents of painting, design and fine arts in Greece. His works represent Greek daily life with kindness, spirituality and simplicity. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1-bnxfKsEI He was born in the village of Pyrgos at Tinos, and the teacher in the village school was surprised watching him ...

NIKIPHOROS LYTRAS1/4 –He was one of the most important exponents of painting, design and fine arts in Greece. His works represent Greek daily life with kindness, spirituality and simplicity. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1-bnxfKsEI He was born in the village of Pyrgos at Tinos, and the teacher in the village school was surprised watching him drawing during the lesson, without ever being taught to paint.

NIKIPHOROS LYTRAS2/4 – In 1860 he won a government scholarship, deepening his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he continued his studies with a patron. During this period he visited many art galleries, museums and villages of Bavaria. He focused on painting history. After graduating, he returned to Greece in 1866 and became a painting professor at the art institute.

NIKIPHOROS LYTRAS3/4 – His subjects were inspired by mythology and Greek history. He began painting portraits and every day life scenes. He traveled to Smyrna and Munich, Paris and Egypt, marrying in 1879 with the daughter of a merchant in Smyrna. Even one of his sons (Nikolaos), became a painter. During his career as a painter, he was recognized as a great artist. The explosion of the flagship of Nasuh Ali Pasha (143×109 cm) is his stunning painting, which is on display in the Averoff Gallery, Metsovohttp://www.mcc.gr/metsovo/ArtGallery.htm

NIKIPHOROS LYTRAS4/4 – His paintings on everyday life, with stubborn children and other elements of Anatolia, correspond to the ideology of the ruling class of the times. In the last period of his life, he preferred to paint scenes of solitude and fear of death. Until 1904, the year of his death, he remained in charge at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, but after a short illness (inhalation of toxic fumes from chemicals in his paints) he was replaced by one of his students. To admire his painting “Antigone in front of the dead Polynices”, visit the National Art Gallery and Alexander Soutzos Museum http://www.europeana-inside.eu/national_gallery_a_alexandros_soutzos_museum.htm

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